Noah GiftLecturer

Noah Gift is lecturer and consultant at UC Davis Graduate School
of Management in the MSBA program. He is teaching graduate
machine learning and consulting on Machine Learning and Cloud
Architecture for students and faculty. He has published
close to 100 technical publications including two books on
subjects ranging from Cloud Machine Learning to DevOps. He
is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect and has an MBA from
UC Davis, a M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Cal State
Los Angeles, and a B.S. in Nutritional Science from Cal Poly San
Luis Obispo.

Professionally, Noah has approximately 20 years’ experience
programming in Python and is a member of the Python Software
Foundation. He has worked in roles ranging from CTO, General
Manager, Consulting CTO and Cloud Architect. This experience
has been with a wide variety of companies including ABC, Caltech,
Sony Imageworks, Disney Feature Animation, Weta Digital,
AT&T, Turner Studios and Linden Lab. In the last ten
years, he has been responsible for shipping many new products at
multiple companies that generated millions of dollars of revenue
and had global scale. Currently he is consulting startups
and other companies, on Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture and
CTO level consulting via Noah Gift Consulting.

Pragmatic AI will help you solve real-world problems with
contemporary machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud
computing tools. Noah Gift demystifies all the concepts and tools
you need to get results—even if you don’t have a strong
background in math or data science.

The cloud has been a disruptive force that has touched every
industry in the last decade. Not all cloud technology is the
same, though. There are cloud-native technologies like serverless
and cloud-legacy technologies like relational databases, which
were first proposed in 1970. One easy way to note this
distinction is to think about the cloud as the new operating
system. Before there was the cloud, you had to write your
application for Windows, Mac or some Unix/Linux flavor.